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Miyamoto Musashi's dojo was smaller than my living room. Things became superfluous for him. In the end he didn't even need a sword.
Trying to force this level of simplicity doesn't work. Austerity for the unprepared is prison; for the ready, it is freedom.
“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”
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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
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“I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
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